Some items you can recycle in one city may be prohibited in another. Batteries, plastic bags, small appliances, and more may ...

Polyethylene terephthalate (PET), a key material in bottles, packaging, and clothing fibers, is notoriously difficult to ...

Plastic is ubiquitous. Around 1m plastic water bottles are sold every minute and 5trn plastic bags are used around the world every year, according to the un’s Environment Programme. Half of all ...

About 400 million tons of plastic are produced each year, but less than 10% is recycled, with most of the rest ending up incinerated or in landfills. One reason is that it is difficult for ...

While plastics help enable modern standards of living, their accumulation in landfills and the overall environment continues to grow as a global concern.